In nonelection years — the “off season” for political consultants — Democratic and Republican strategists have worked together on corporate accounts before, but the amount of teaming up now is striking, even to some of Washington’s oldest hands.2009 January 16, Adam Nagourney, Jim Rutenberg, “Spirit of Bipartisanship Spreads to Consultants”, in New York Times:
nonelection
noun
Etymology From non- + election.
1
A decision-making process that is not an election.
Nonelections If the shareholders' proxies are sought not for election of a board of directors, but for some extraordinary corporate event, such as a merger, no annual report is required […]1987, Robert A. Prentice, Law of Business Organizations and Securities Regulation, page 656: